9416
???????????????????????
| 9416 | AST`s satellite service connects directly to cell phones on carriers` networks (簡訳:ASTの衛星サービスは、通信事業者のネットワーク上の携帯電話に直接接続します) | ----------- | |
| FierceWireless: Wireless | 2021-06-25 08:00 | ????0? | |
| AST SpaceMobile was founded in 2017 by Abel Avellan, who is the company’s CEO. It has raised almost $600 million, and its investors include Rakuten, Vodafone, American Tower and Samsung. The Texas-based company has about 220 employees and a market cap of about $1.8 billion, according to its Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski.He said the key thing that distinguishes AST from other satellite companies that are scrambling to offer broadband service is that AST’s technology “connects directly to the handset.” End customers do not have to buy any additional equipment, have any special infrastructure installed or buy any special smartphones.In terms of backhaul infrastructure on the ground, Wisniewski said, “You need antennas in the V-band and a gateway — one or more of those in a country — either co-located with a telco or at a neutral facility, which is part of our relationship with American Tower. V-band is a high frequency spectrum that we have some priority rights for under ITU.”Rather than making money by selling capacity, AST is establishing a revenue-sharing model with its telco partners. Many end customers may end up using AST’s satellite services as a supplement to their regular mobile coverage. If they travel to a locale where their provider doesn’t have coverage, they’ll receive a text asking if they want to connect to AST’s service.Amin said the cost to deploy wireless coverage to rural areas of Japan was looking daunting and might have cost as much to deploy to the last small percentage of the population as it is costing “in the first phase” to the majority of the population. “Today, whatever we spend on building urban, suburban areas, to go build rural and deep rural, this is where the challenge for the industry as a whole has always been there," said Amin. "The business model for rural is very challenging. We might have had to spend a substantial amount of money had we not looked at innovative, disruptive technologies such as SpaceMobile.” -- ???????? | |||
|
????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????? |
|||
????????????